Getting safari history from phone

Question

I\'m creating a custom browser application.
apart from the sites visited from my browser, i\'d like to show the history of the sites visited from safari browser as well

Answer 1

Simply put, you cannot. The history is stored in a property list outside of your applications sandbox and you cannot access it.

On the jailbroken side, there is a History.plist located at /private/var/mobile/Library/Safari

Answer 2

I got it. Please follow following path then you will retrieve Browser history for iOS7 iPhone.

/private/var/mobile/Applications//Library/Safari/History.plist

In iOS7 safari app not a system app. When you open Applications folder then you can find history and other plist files.

Answer 3

Simply put NO, you can't access the Safari History. Apps are sandboxed.

If this is for an in-house app, then you could jailbreak the phones and go around the sandboxing like so -

We can find the history.plist in /var/mobile/Media/Safari/ and this we can read in jailbreaken iPhone.

Update:

see this SO link: How to access iPhone Safari History in an App?

Answer 4

You can't. There is NO API to access Safari's browsing history.